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Perfection. Takes 5 mins to make and tastes amazing?? Low effort high reward. Best part for sure is the bottom when it isn't quite fully cooked.
Apr 10, 2024
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guys. i just love mug cakes. red velvet mug cake. funfetti mug cake. chocolate chip mug COOKIE. mug BROWNIE. so much versatility. happy baking :)
Feb 3, 2024
This is the most amazing and low-maintenance little baking book you’ll come across. All the recipes are designed to just be made with a whisk and a mixing bowl. Just little snacking cakes that are perfect as a sweet breakfast or a little Kaffee und Kuchen in the afternoon. I made the vanilla bean cake below. 😇
Feb 6, 2025
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I love baking cakes for people. Store bought cakes are so boring. What do they show? That you have fifty bucks and a half hour to kill? Who even needs a cake at all at that point. Cakeake isn’t about being a cake, it’s about thoughtfulness, decorum, and perseverance. I will exhaust myself and push myself to limits I didn’t know existed in order to make elaborate cakes for my friends’ birthdays. The funny thing is, I always run excessively late at finishing them, barely getting the frosting on… And by the time the cake reaches its destination, it inevitably falls apart. But they always taste good. People think they can’t bake, even people who like to cook think they can’t bake… And I guess I kind of just explained how baking is hard and I’m not great at it, but that’s exactly why you should do it! It’s good to not be good at things and who knows, you could be really great at it. And if you aren’t it’s still fun and makes people happy.
Oct 13, 2022
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Such a nice way to discover and romanticise/appreciate where you live!! Also I discovered with like google my maps you can colour coordinate pins and add photos which is so cute
Apr 7, 2024
Jan 6, 2025
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Newspaper archives are great to look at random events and also see how people at the time reacted to them!! Maybe old magazines/films could be cool too?
There are also so many different blogs on Substack which look at different bits of history - like https://www.africanhistoryextra.com/?utm_source=global-search, https://florencehrs.substack.com/, and https://15thcfeminist.substack.com/. Definitely browse on Substack to see what's on offer and what style/topics interest you the most!
For more general blogs, https://publicdomainreview.org/ and https://daily.jstor.org/ look into quite niche topics.
Also the podcast 'The Rest is History' has done loads of episodes on many different topics! Have fun <33
Jan 6, 2025